The Link between Religion and Health Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor 1st Edition by Harold Koenig, Harvey Cohen 0195186265 9780195186260

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ISBN 10: 0195186265 

ISBN 13: 9780195186260

Author: Harold G. Koenig, Harvey J. Cohen

This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture. The distinguished list of contributors examine a series of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) topics that relate to religious faith and behavior. PNI studies the relationships between mental states and the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Among the issues it focuses upon are how mental states, in general, and belief states, in particular, affect physical health. The contributors argue that religious involvement and belief can affect certain neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms, and that these mechanisms, in turn, susceptibility to cancer and recovery following surgery. This volume is essential reading for those interested in the relationship between religion and health.

Table of contents:

1. The Connection between Psychoneuroimmunology and Religion

2. The Development and History of Psychoneuroimmunology

3. Understanding How Stress Affects the Physical Body

4. Stress, Natural Killer Cells, and Cancer

5. Psychosocial Interventions and Prognosis in Cancer

6. Psychosocial Stress, Social Networks, and Susceptibility to Infection

7. Psychosocial Factors, Immunity, and Wound Healing

8. Psychosocial Factors, Spirituality/Religiousness, and Immune Function in HIV/AIDS Patients

9. Hostility, Neuroendocrine Changes, and Health Outcomes

10. Psychological Stress and Autoimmune Disease

11. Immune, Neuroendocrine, and Religious Measures

12. Psychoneuroimmunology and Eastern Religious Traditions

13. Psychoneuroimmunology and Western Religious Traditions

14. Psychoneuroimmunology and Religion: Implications for Society and Culture

15. Avenues for Future Research

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